maitreyi anantharaman
@maitreyiaa.bsky.social
staff writer at Defector, mostly women's basketball // maitreyi.me
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interesting weekend! anyway! I’m really excited to work on this book about all the ways women’s basketball players are valued and devalued
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Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.
January 30, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.
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Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon.
Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social
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January 25, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon.
Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social
Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social
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Is Aliyah Chavez’s shot selection a red flag? Can we trust LSU’s offense? Are inflatable rats canon? What’s up with Unrivaled ratings? Is Kim Mulkey the campiest SEC coach? Answering your WNBA questions with @itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social and @maitreyiaa.bsky.social
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College Ball Green, Yellow, and Red Flags Plus the CBA's Big Rat Problem
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January 13, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Is Aliyah Chavez’s shot selection a red flag? Can we trust LSU’s offense? Are inflatable rats canon? What’s up with Unrivaled ratings? Is Kim Mulkey the campiest SEC coach? Answering your WNBA questions with @itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social and @maitreyiaa.bsky.social
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favorite time of year: the matt lafleur press conference youtube chat has begun
January 11, 2026 at 4:53 AM
favorite time of year: the matt lafleur press conference youtube chat has begun
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my gorgeous perfect beautiful sons the detroit pistons
April 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
my gorgeous perfect beautiful sons the detroit pistons
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The fifth episode of Only If You Get Caught is also out now, wherein the great @maitreyiaa.bsky.social and I talk WNBA labor battles, charter flights, and the gender wage gap in sports podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
December 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The fifth episode of Only If You Get Caught is also out now, wherein the great @maitreyiaa.bsky.social and I talk WNBA labor battles, charter flights, and the gender wage gap in sports podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Seahawks are second in special teams DVOA…
I wanna be the first one here to throw out JOHN Harbaugh to Michigan if no one else has yet
December 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Seahawks are second in special teams DVOA…
wrote about Ken Belson’s new book EVERY DAY IS SUNDAY, a kind of grim look at how NFL owners have so successfully tilted the balance of power in their favor defector.com/whose-league...
Whose League Is It Anyway? | Defector
In late July, before a game against the Boston Red Sox, Bryce Harper sat slumped in a chair in the Philadelphia Phillies clubhouse, a baseball bat in hand. Philadelphia was the latest stop on Rob Manf...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
wrote about Ken Belson’s new book EVERY DAY IS SUNDAY, a kind of grim look at how NFL owners have so successfully tilted the balance of power in their favor defector.com/whose-league...
Always fun to chat with Seerat and the WNBA's proposed draft combine gave me the perfect excuse to do more Cam Brink height trutherism...
Decoding a big, confusing WNBA CBA update with @maitreyiaa.bsky.social where we ask a burning question: Should Ellie unionize? Plus, the rise of the athlete-influencer era and some WNBA Draft talk
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A Big, Confusing WNBA CBA Update, the Athlete-Influencer Era, and WNBA Draft Talk
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December 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Always fun to chat with Seerat and the WNBA's proposed draft combine gave me the perfect excuse to do more Cam Brink height trutherism...
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Decoding a big, confusing WNBA CBA update with @maitreyiaa.bsky.social where we ask a burning question: Should Ellie unionize? Plus, the rise of the athlete-influencer era and some WNBA Draft talk
open.spotify.com/episode/3tyc...
open.spotify.com/episode/3tyc...
A Big, Confusing WNBA CBA Update, the Athlete-Influencer Era, and WNBA Draft Talk
open.spotify.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Decoding a big, confusing WNBA CBA update with @maitreyiaa.bsky.social where we ask a burning question: Should Ellie unionize? Plus, the rise of the athlete-influencer era and some WNBA Draft talk
open.spotify.com/episode/3tyc...
open.spotify.com/episode/3tyc...
each evening i go to yoga class, achieve enlightenment, come home, turn on the pistons game, and make plans to bomb caris levert's house 🧘♀️
December 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
each evening i go to yoga class, achieve enlightenment, come home, turn on the pistons game, and make plans to bomb caris levert's house 🧘♀️
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blogged my first bylined blog for defector dot com
Reflections on five years in worker-owned media: defector.com/reflections-...
Reflections On Five Years In Worker-Owned Media | Defector
As I finally got to work on writing Defector’s fifth Annual Report, I found myself noodling on some broader thoughts about the worker-owned media landscape. Tom said some sections would work as a…
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November 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
blogged my first bylined blog for defector dot com
the family Pistons groupchat has never been so harmonious. HA HAs and heart reacts every night, countless messages concerning Daniss Jenkins
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
the family Pistons groupchat has never been so harmonious. HA HAs and heart reacts every night, countless messages concerning Daniss Jenkins
shohei ohtani makes me want to have children so I can have grandchildren so I can tell them about him
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
shohei ohtani makes me want to have children so I can have grandchildren so I can tell them about him
Even though they're a functional team now, I have been so battered by so many bad years of Pistons basketball that merely seeing Cade in the NBA on NBC intro video felt amazing...second guy they showed 😭 representation matters
October 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Even though they're a functional team now, I have been so battered by so many bad years of Pistons basketball that merely seeing Cade in the NBA on NBC intro video felt amazing...second guy they showed 😭 representation matters
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Only If You Get Caught S1E1 is about the most infamous basketball conspiracy theory: Did the NBA fix Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals? Our guest is the great @tcraggs22.bsky.social. Subscribe now, Or Else!!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Only If You Get Caught
History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Only If You Get Caught is about how we can better understand sports and culture by appreciating the ways humans cheat in ways big and small.
Hosted by Patrick Redfo...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Only If You Get Caught S1E1 is about the most infamous basketball conspiracy theory: Did the NBA fix Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals? Our guest is the great @tcraggs22.bsky.social. Subscribe now, Or Else!!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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Work continues to develop a comprehensive and trustworthy historical archive for...
the WNBA: acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/
Unrivaled: unrivaled.acrossthetimeline.com
AU: acrossthetimeline.com/auprosports/
Consider supporting continued development financially:
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the WNBA: acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/
Unrivaled: unrivaled.acrossthetimeline.com
AU: acrossthetimeline.com/auprosports/
Consider supporting continued development financially:
acrossthetimeline.com/support.html
October 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Work continues to develop a comprehensive and trustworthy historical archive for...
the WNBA: acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/
Unrivaled: unrivaled.acrossthetimeline.com
AU: acrossthetimeline.com/auprosports/
Consider supporting continued development financially:
acrossthetimeline.com/support.html
the WNBA: acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/
Unrivaled: unrivaled.acrossthetimeline.com
AU: acrossthetimeline.com/auprosports/
Consider supporting continued development financially:
acrossthetimeline.com/support.html
thank you Aces for sweeping so I can go home and pick up my library holds before the deadline 🙏 such a neat team to watch and cover this postseason! defector.com/the-aces-mad...
The Aces Made Their Season From The Muck | Defector
PHOENIX — Now they were just showing off, treating the crowd to an encore. Jackie Young zigged and zagged to the rim. Chelsea Gray’s strange-looking heaves swished in. NaLyssa Smith pulled down all th...
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October 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
thank you Aces for sweeping so I can go home and pick up my library holds before the deadline 🙏 such a neat team to watch and cover this postseason! defector.com/the-aces-mad...
as per tradition, I am rereading my Notes app Tigers season diary today (you can see me get increasingly panicked as we choke away the division) and there is really no other sport with this emotional rhythm, baseball owns
October 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
as per tradition, I am rereading my Notes app Tigers season diary today (you can see me get increasingly panicked as we choke away the division) and there is really no other sport with this emotional rhythm, baseball owns
that's the greatest player ever man defector.com/who-can-stop...
Who Can Stop A'ja Wilson? | Defector
PHOENIX — On paper, all the havoc of a basketball game becomes something neat and unfeeling. However spiritually untrue it seems, this is actually true: In Game 3 of the WNBA Finals, there was only on...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
that's the greatest player ever man defector.com/who-can-stop...
you can keep your little Etsy witch. this is a union town, we don’t fuck with the gig economy
October 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
you can keep your little Etsy witch. this is a union town, we don’t fuck with the gig economy
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For the WNBPA and the NWSLPA, solidarity is an ethos as well as a strategy. I spoke with leaders from both unions to learn more about the organizations' strong relationship:
The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together
For NWSL and WNBA players’ unions, collective actions have been key to their successes in wholly different sports
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October 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
For the WNBPA and the NWSLPA, solidarity is an ethos as well as a strategy. I spoke with leaders from both unions to learn more about the organizations' strong relationship:
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There's a delicious irony in WNBA sources complaining about Unrivaled's role in CBA negotiations when the league exists in no small part because of the prioritization rules the WNBA insisted on during the current CBA. Be careful what you wish for ...
October 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
There's a delicious irony in WNBA sources complaining about Unrivaled's role in CBA negotiations when the league exists in no small part because of the prioritization rules the WNBA insisted on during the current CBA. Be careful what you wish for ...
excited to cover these desert Finals for Defector! a dispatch from the most crowded and eagerly awaited WNBA press conference I've ever been to... defector.com/the-hottest-...
The Hottest Ticket In Vegas? Cathy Engelbert's Press Conference | Defector
LAS VEGAS — An Aces game overloads the senses well before the game itself begins. The national anthem features indoor fireworks. Seats rumble from the bass of the speakers. There’s so much to look at,...
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October 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
excited to cover these desert Finals for Defector! a dispatch from the most crowded and eagerly awaited WNBA press conference I've ever been to... defector.com/the-hottest-...